A 9-year-old Idaho girl died after she fell out of a tree and was impaled in the head by a steel bar.Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries said Thursday that Shaylyn Bergeson was playing in her backyard July 29 near the city of Rexburg when she fell.Bergeson's parents had reported her as missing to police. Officers found the girl unconscious under a small tree near the family's home.He said she had been impaled by a piece of steel poking out of the ground.The girl was airlifted to a hospital in Idaho Falls and then flown to a Utah hospital where she had surgery. She died Friday and her organs are being donated, according to family friend Jenn Handy, who set up a GoFundMe page.Handy described Shaylyn as an energetic, selfless child."Our baby was able to save four lives and someone’s vision," Handy said in a GoFundMe update Friday. "The transplant team was able to retrieve her liver, kidneys, heart valves and corneas. "We again are overwhelmed with how blessed we truly are and although we are completely devastated, we are also so proud and overjoyed for those five individuals who are getting a phone call with the answer to a prayer they have been desperately asking for is now possible," Handy wrote.The GoFundMe page has raised more than $27,000 as of Monday afternoon, which is slated to go toward the girl's medical expenses.Jesi and Kurt Bergeson, Shaylyn's parents, lost a 10-year-old girl in 2016, EastIdahoNews.com reported.Shaylyn's older sister, Briauna Bergeson, had a rare chromosome abnormality and had been in hospice care for years."We are not doing good right now," Jesi Bergeson told the news outlet last month. "We lost her older sister just four years ago and the thought of losing another baby is tearing us up."

SALEM, Idaho —

A 9-year-old Idaho girl died after she fell out of a tree and was impaled in the head by a steel bar.

Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries said Thursday that Shaylyn Bergeson was playing in her backyard July 29 near the city of Rexburg when she fell.

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Bergeson's parents had reported her as missing to police. Officers found the girl unconscious under a small tree near the family's home.

He said she had been impaled by a piece of steel poking out of the ground.

The girl was airlifted to a hospital in Idaho Falls and then flown to a Utah hospital where she had surgery. She died Friday and her organs are being donated, according to family friend Jenn Handy, who set up a GoFundMe page.

Handy described Shaylyn as an energetic, selfless child.

"Our baby was able to save four lives and someone’s vision," Handy said in a GoFundMe update Friday. "The transplant team was able to retrieve her liver, kidneys, heart valves and corneas.

"We again are overwhelmed with how blessed we truly are and although we are completely devastated, we are also so proud and overjoyed for those five individuals who are getting a phone call with the answer to a prayer they have been desperately asking for is now possible," Handy wrote.

The GoFundMe page has raised more than $27,000 as of Monday afternoon, which is slated to go toward the girl's medical expenses.